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Example sentences for "word about"

  • And now a word about what is not expressed, but is necessarily implied in this verse, viz.

  • Our hearts are full of some small matter of daily interest, and when we kneel down not a word about it comes to our lips.

  • Let us take the clauses seriatim, and say a word about each of them.

  • Never set eyes on him before, and there wasn't the least need to tell him a word about you.

  • He must have lost his head to say a word about you.

  • Don't say a word about that," was the answer.

  • Don't say a word about it till I come back.

  • So, if you find out that it is him, do not say a word about it.

  • Yes, with a bullet in his leg; I didn't like to say a word about it in the letter.

  • Breathe not a word about him, if you ever come out.

  • I even kept away from the window, though I wanted to watch for the bailiffs, and strictly ordered Mrs. Shelfer not to tell her, if she should call, a word about my being there.

  • Indeed, aunt, I never would have said a word about it if.

  • The delighted Agnes instantly disembarrassed herself of all out-of-door appurtenances, and Lucy, without saying a word about it, quietly did the same.

  • She looked inquisitively at Alice, eyeing the letter which was lying by the side of her niece's workbasket, but she said no word about Mr Grey or the Countess.

  • I wish I had never told him a word about it," she said afterwards to Alice.

  • She did not say a word about George; nor during those three days, nor for some days afterwards, did George show himself.

  • He told me he should come, and I thought it better not to say a word about it.

  • She had heard so much of his family; but he had as yet spoken to her no word about Caroline.

  • Said not a word about so mundane a subject?

  • I haven't told any one a word about this, even Ethel Brown.

  • Not a word about Mercanson or her illness.

  • Smith came to dinner; at the table I affected unusual cheerfulness, and without a word about my plans, I turned the conversation to our journey.

  • As I did not know his address, I asked Brigitte for it, pretending that I felt under obligations to call on him after all the visits he had made us; I had not said a word about my experience at the Opera.

  • If I had been Columbus, and, if it could possibly have been managed, I would have found America all by myself, and never have said a word about it to anybody.

  • Then she made me promise not to say a word about it to anybody, and if I did I should be thrown into the black pit.

  • I will not touch at all the abstract question of the right of impressment: it has been so much more ably handled by others that I shall not say a word about it.

  • No, no," exclaimed the emperor, "do not say a word about that!

  • But you must not say a word about my departure.

  • During my whole journey I did not hear a word about it.

  • And now, having broken my resolution never to write a Preface, there are just two or three things which I should like to say a word about.

  • One other thing I must have a word about.

  • What do you want to say a word about it for?

  • Because I decided that I wouldn't say a word about it to any person," answered Ben.

  • I tried to make him tell me how it caught, and he wouldn't say a word about it.

  • So I have but little to say that deserves an Answer from you: but please to write me a little: a word about Mr. Lowell, whom you have doubtless heard from.

  • I shall like to hear a word about my old France, dear to me from childish associations, and in particular of the Loire, endeared to me by Sevigne; for I never saw the glimmer of its waters myself.

  • And again I will say that I wish you would keep it wholly to yourself: and, above all, not let a word about it cross the Atlantic.


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